Fixed wing of an aircraft

US9555874B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Gerd Heller · Hamburg, DE
• Alexander Buescher · Bremen, DE
• Frank Theurich · Hude, DE
• Tom Gibson · Berkeley, GB
• Michael Karwin · Weyhe, DE
• Stephen Powell · Weston-super-Mare, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 2015
• Grant date: Jan 31, 2017
• Expiry date: May 15, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T50/10
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fixed wing of an aircraft, having a main wing extending over a half-span with a wing box including spars extending along the spanwise direction of the main wing, ribs arranged one in back of the other viewed in the spanwise direction, and an outer skin. The wing box includes a wing box base section (K10) and a wing box adapter section, that forms the outer end area of the wing box, as viewed from the wing root, and is designed to secure a wing tip device. In its nominal state of construction, the dihedral angle of the wing box adapter section referring to the respective local spanwise direction continuously increases by at most 60 degrees from the outer rib of the wing box base section (K10) up to the outermost rib of the wing box adapter section.